healthfinch to Receive ‘Innovation Award’ from athenahealth at HIMSS18

healthfinch, a healthcare IT company that is committed to reducing provider burnout through the automation of routine, repetitive clinical tasks, is honored to be the recipient of an Innovation Award by athenahealth.

Presentation of the award will take place at the 2018 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition (HIMSS18). healthfinch was nominated due to its development of the Charlie Practice Automation Platform, which streamlines refill management and visit planning tasks in EMRs. Its solution is available in some of the industry’s leading EMRs and can be implemented at organizations of all sizes.

“We are honored to be recognized as an innovator in the healthcare IT landscape,” said Jonathan Baran, co-founder and CEO of healthfinch. “Our vision is that through technology solutions like Charlie, clinical staff can spend more time on direct patient care and less on administrative tasks. We're grateful that athenahealth and our other EMR partners have opened up their platforms to allow us to execute on this vision.”

“At athenahealth, we are constantly striving to celebrate the players who are disrupting and transforming healthcare,” said Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth. “We know there is real opportunity to share tangible, effective innovations that can be replicated at other organizations, regardless of scope, size, or location. This year at HIMSS, we’re thrilled to launch the Innovation Awards and recognize programs that are driving meaningful change in care delivery and organizational outcomes across the country.”

A series of fireside chats with athenahealth’s Innovation Award winners will culminate with the awards ceremony on March 7 at 4:30 p.m. PST at the athenahealth booth (#119). Baran will speak on behalf of healthfinch at 3:00 pm.

athenahealth is a network-enabled, results-oriented services company that offers medical record, revenue cycle, patient engagement, care coordination, and population health services for hospital and ambulatory clients. The company’s vision is to build a national health information backbone to help make healthcare work as it should.